Review of Top Gun (1955) by Shae S — 02 Feb 2013

Dumb dumb dumb. I mean, it's watchable. It isn't boring, but its only entertainment value lies in how easily it can be mocked. It is completely unaware of its stupidity or homoerotic subtext, but it never pretends to be anything resembling depth.

Great eighties tunes guide the plot along and tell the audience what is happening, in case the plot didn't explain itself thoroughly enough. And Tom Cruise is on auto-pilot (no, I wasn't intending to make a pun).

Tom Cruise has an intriguingly manic stoicism that he exudes in many of his films. He yells occasionally which lets me know that his character experiences human emotions.